^{26 Ref} But his lord in answer said to him, You are a bad and unready servant; if you had knowledge that I get in grain where I did not put seed, and make profits for which I have done no work,

^{27 Ref} Why, then, did you not put my money in the bank, and at my coming I would have got back what is mine with interest?

^{28 Ref} Take away, then, his talent and give it to him who has the ten talents.